
Ex-NFL star O.J. Simpson was to learn Friday how much time he'll spend in a Nevada state prison for a botched attempt to recover sports mementos and personal items from two collectibles peddlers.
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obama will pardon him asap
Another confirmation, biggotry at its finest!
Bye, Bye, J.O.
hello Gene - cannot agree with your post regarding the murder trail verdict or this latest verdict. The reason WHY it has been on the news soooooo much is because he WAS a celebrity, get it. Brittney/Madona/Whinehouse or whoever is in the lime light get full coverage when they do something wrong. So my friend do not be soooo quick to play the race card, thanks.
TIO, I am not playing the race card. If you read some of the posts on this site, it indeed confirms my statement. I do not believe all whites are biggots I am addressing those that have left the comments. Respectfully, Gene
Continouing Gene many whites and latinos die every day and the stories DONOT go on national TV. Get over your race problem, thanks.
As usual, what an F'in joke.....Flat out murder (Again) and he get an out as of 6 years....BS,BS,BS!!!!!
Do you realize that this man and other African American cellabs took over Ford Motor International which the Vatican owned the majority shares. These African Americans refused to give up their shares and their family members were murdered. Did you know that OJ owned the majority of these shares and his life and the life of his children were at stack. Yes he knew who killed his x wife and her friend. Go to Google and type in Ford Mortor and the Vatican.
Wake Up! One man could not give two people a bow tie ( that is cut their throats and pull the tongue through the neck) and get one drop of blood on his sock.
Stop with this witch hunt and ask yourselves this question, is it possible that he did not do this?
Now who has complete control of Ford Mortor Company? Look it up.
Will O.J. still collect RESIDUALS from all his movies now?
jonny blaze... Who the hell is the moderator. Why is this Piece of s...t still here?????
You may not agree with him; but it is Freedom of Speech.
Jack !
Please say " real ugly " Free Speech.
His children will. He already set that up. So there.
Well, will he get Social Security?
Too bad he's not as sorry for killing two people as he is for armed robbery.
Well, he is just as sorry! He just didn't have to feign it for his murders.
Although I believed OJ killed Nicole and Ron Goldman, however, the US Judicial system worked then (to free him as I believe the prosecution did not prove their case BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT) and it has worked now (You cannot use force to reclaim your property).
However, what I don't get here is why some people here who are against OJ for walking for the murders of Nicole and Ron Goldman, did not express similar outrage for the murders by Phil Spector and Robert Blake. Why is that?
Phil Spector and Robert Blake....My point exactly, the same obsession simply does not exist.
"However, what I don't get here is why some people here who are against OJ for walking for the murders of Nicole and Ron Goldman, did not express similar outrage for the murders by Phil Spector and Robert Blake. Why is that?"
Very simple question to answer. For the same reason that hundreds of whites killed by blacks, and hundreds of blacks killed by whites, did not receive the same amount of publicity as OJ generated.
He was a celebrity already in the limelight. Just a few days before his arrest even, he was already in the paper. Similar to when Brittany Spears was in the paper practically every day for a while when she flipped out and shaved her head, OJ was in the spotlight at the time as a rising actor, an alcoholic, and for the multiple times the police were called to his home on accusations of beating up women. He was already in the tabloids, he was in the papers, he was on the news, you could see his face in the movie theatre....he was a celebrity with all eyes on him. And during that time, he was arrested on accusations of murder. Do you really think that someone in the paper consistently, someone known and popular throughout the country, would receive only the same amount of attention as any other person accused of a crime? If Paris Hilton killed someone today, white or black, the trial would receive even more attention than the OJ trial. You forget that the people who were for OJ gave it the same attention as people against him. They failed to show similar outrage or support towards Spector and Blake. That alone provides ample proof that it was his celebrity status that created the media circus, the race card only being pulled after the attention had already begun.
Robert Blake and Phil Specter didn't get all day coverage for weeks on every network. It was a lot easier to follow the Simpson trial because it got just that. It's a whole lot easier to develop an opinion on something that you feel informed about. Just ask anyone you know that knows the details of the Blake and Specter cases, they'll have an opinion that most likely is guilty.
It's the same case for that arrogant cop whose wife disappeared. There's plenty of outrage, but like Beckwolf asserts, without the media keeping it at the forefront, people just don't make a lot of noise about it.
That's easy. It's because they were white.
You have my sympathy. What a burden it must be to feel persecuted your whole life. Everyone out to get you for no reason at all, just their own racist hatred being directed towards you. I know that everytime anything bad happens to me I find solace in the fact that I'm part Ottawa even though it's not apparent to everyone. That way I can always blame everyone but the guy in the mirror.
I hope he gets work detail in the kitchen, so when he gets out he will be able to make an honest living and we all will be able to see him wearing that attractive hair net while assembling our Big Mac's.
Loser! He deserves everything he gets and then some. This man is right where thugs belong, next to other thugs.
Now really is that necessary?
Can you believe the idiots outside the courtroom protesting. What a joke. He can not even come up for parole until he is in his 70's.
Jack23 your comments reak of ignorance and hatred. Thanks for showing it the world. Once again go to You Tube and search on The Origins of White People aka your ancestors. I feel sorry for you. Hatred, hatred, hatred.
Or you can search on Are White People Albinos? Also please note than in Africa, albinos were and still ousted thereby creating the white race. I say this not with hate, but to educate you and the rest of these ignorant people who are consumed with hate against there own ancestry.
Gene, what does ancestory have to do with anything? So what if you believe mankind began in Africa. You may want to take a look at Egypt and other areas around the world. What point are you trying to make, and how does it apply to society today? I am by no means a racist, just a realist. Unfortunately, racism has always been here and always will. You seem to have a big affinity for it.
To answer your question, Jack23, it is not my belief, it is scientific proof that mankind began in Africa. Secondly, your comment below is why I classify you as a racist:
Jack23...How could you speak for all "intelligent blacks"? Gene, there aren't that many; maybe 10 worldwide.
Lastly, yes, in fact I do have an affinity for educating biggots. I happen to have a bi-racial family and friends who are white and would classify your comment about 10 worldwide as not only racist but ignorant.
"To answer your question, Jack23, it is not my belief, it is scientific proof that mankind began in Africa."
Actually, not trying to get into an argument here, but there is no scientific data to suggest beyond doubt that man came from Africa. Scientists, for a time, believed that humans originated from Africa because early primates there evolved into anthropoids. However, older primates have been found throughout parts of Asia, but they do not appear to have evolved as quickly and thus may never have evolved into man. However, some of the youngest fossils found to date have been found in Pakistan, as well as India, which new evidence shows could have evolved into anthropoids as well. All that we have right now are speculations on where man started from. The three most popular theories are Africa, Asia, and India (only recently added to the list due to new findings), but it's nothing more than speculation. Sorry, but there is no scientific proof on that one, you can look it up for yourself. Not that it really means anything to anyone other that paleantologists doing evolutionary studies (my fiance is studying as a paleantologist out in Tennessee), our origins just answering a natural curiosity but not providing reasons for who we are today. Right now, it is just your belief that we originated in Africe, not scientific proof. Asia, East Africa (the theory is that we originated in the far central East side of Africa), Pakistan, India...all valid and just as easily supported as the next.
Well that what happens when you start seeing a married woman or cheat on your husband, you get killed. I'm not saying O.J. should have killed those people. But I understand why he did.
What kind of a person are you? So you think it is okay to kill..... I don't believe Nicole was running around on OJ. They were separated or divorced - and Ron just brought her purse back from the club. However, that said, no behaviour is justification for murder! You are one sick person!
Vindication for Nicole and Ron at last. Finally, O.J. learns that he is not above and beyond the law. I found it funny he tried to give "testimony" when pleading his "sorrow" to the judge before sentencing. I wonder what has been going through his mind up to this point? Probably the thought that he got away with murder, so this should have been a cake walk for him. Sorry, O.J., not everyone is as stupid as you are! Have fun making "friends" behind bars!!
OJ's problem is that he is completely void of any sympathy or empathy for anyone. He believes that what he does is right (because his is, after all, OJ Simpson) and he lacks morality even on the most basic level. I do believe he killed Nicole and Ron. He thought she deserved it...so he killed her. Ron was just collateral damage. He thought he deserved to get "his" things back...so he decided to take them. He has no remorse. Indeed, I laughed out loud when I read OJ told the judge, "I didn’t want to steal anything from anyone ... I’m sorry, sorry." He is a gutless wonder who refuses to take responsibility for his actions. I expect that from my 3 yr old...not a 60 something man. OOoops, did I refer to him as a man? Sorry, a slip on my part. He is a lousy excute for a human being. I hope someone makes OJ his girlfriend in prison.
Yeah!! Killer story!!!
This is a great day for all white people. All of his kind should be locked up. Thank you Goldmanns for all your help in making it clear that these people should not live with us. However, next to go into the camps should be the Goldmanns and their kind.
I am a 67 year old grandmother and have been WHITE all my life. I watched 100% of OJ's murder trial (bored I guess). The Prosecutors in that trial did not prove OJ did anything, if I would have been on that jury, I would have also went with "not guilty". This latest trial I know very little about, other than he has to be one of the stupidest men that has ever lived, he let himself get set up by a bunch of bad people he thought were friends. From what I understand he did something not only very stupid but very wrong, for that it looks as though he will spend about 5 years in prison, at any age that is a long time, at his age it could be forever. As far as I am concerned it is time to let go of OJ Simpson, unless you were there you have no idea who killed his ex wife and her friend..
Mary, what level of education have you completed? He could have been convicted on a tenth of the evidence they presented.
Spot on. From my understanding OJ ex-wife was a drug addict and owed money. Could to drug dealers have been cops which explained why they dropped OJ blood on the floor to make it look like he did it?
Yeah and he really cut his hand on his trip the next day. And the limosine driver did not see him scurrying across the yard, and he really was in his back yard, in the dark hitting golf balls, and the police somehow got his blood and put it in his car as well, and the rare shoes that he wears did not really leave those shoe prints in the blood, and he wasn't in the Ford with his buddy with a disguise and a ton of cash, and and and. Please.
Jack23, you sound bitter, chill! Bottomline we weren't there. I was just giving other possiblities that may occur.
I am not bitter at all. It just amazes me after the world saw most of the evidence how they could possibly come to any other conclusion. It is almost like someone trying to convince you that 1 plus 1 does not equal 2. How many ways can it be spun before you just get sick of hearing people trying to find ways to make you believe something that is not true.
I am a 67 year old grandmother and have been WHITE all my life.
That kind of goes without saying..
Mary who is 67 years old and a grandmother has been WHITE all her life know things those younger wished they knew. Mary's statement is accurate! Think about it?
I dont know about that. I once knew a person that used to be black. A cute kid at the time that sang really well. But now a days...
Mary, you mean I am WHITE now, but tomorrow I can be a different race? color? Gee, how does that work?
In addition he's also guilty of being stupid.
Don't understand this one. How many other criminals get 15 years for what OJ did? I'm not on his side, but given the details, this is a joke. I've If the judge is trying to make a statement I suggest she make a statement to give the maximum to all the people she sentences. Because that's what she did in this case. The only problem is will be that all the California prisons will be full to the brime and who pays for that. You and I the taxpayer. So many criminals are free after a year or two in prison for much greater crimes.
At a time like this we all must ask ourselves "WWFFD" (What Would Fred Flintstone Do?) sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
By Golly!!! I don't know. I pray thee....Please Tell!!!!
Hey O.J.
Ready, set, BUTT! BUTT! BUTT!
Oh thats Hut! Hut! Hut! right.
I hope he gets the max. The events of 1994 not withstanding, this guy is not only a danger to society, but to himself and all humanity. Lock him up, throw away the key, I for one will be glad that my tax dollars are providing him 3 meals a day and a place to sleep. No golf courses, no country clubs, no more life of luxury.
I can hear the Bic lighters firing up all over america. J.O. before prison (.) 1 year in prison (0)
yes, let the bic lighters light up,but when they need that jail space in the state of Nevada, i'll get a GOOD LAUGH WHEN the members of that jury family member get killed, and they don't have nowhere to put him, because all of the people in jail for B.S. We all know that this country should be over this prejudice crap, and this is all thie is. The murder rate in Vegas is very high, and we in America don't have anytime for BACKYARD JUSTICE. WE ALL NEED TO MOVE FOR THIS JUDGE TO BE REMOVED FROM THE BENCH FOR SUCH A BAD SENTENCE....
GEORGE WASHINGTON... You would laugh if a family member of the jury gets killed? Go back where you came from. We have no room for people like you! WE NEED MORE JUDGES LIKE THIS ONE! Go NEVADA!
Loved the poem. Finally some justice for Nicole and Ron, too bad it took so long. Wonder what his children think of him now.
This is a great day for all white people. All of his kind should be locked up. Thank you Goldmanns for all your help in making it clear that these people should not live with us. However, next to go into the camps should be the Goldmanns and their kind.
Why are they African-Americans then instead of just Americans?
What are you, a dumb-ass american? Sure looks like it to me.
Rose !
Blacks make that distinction " AFRICAN- AMERICAN ".
Does that bother you?
roseinwinter, The term African-American is used by some because if you look up the term "black" in the dictionary it is always associated with negativity and evil. My question to you is, why should anyone care that some Africa-American chose to label themselves as such? No one should be offended by that.
Oly the very insecure are threatened by another's pride in one's self.
LMAO
"Why are they African-Americans then instead of just Americans?"
They're not, to be African American you must have obtained citizenship in Africa before moving to America. One of my best friends (we attempted to start a business together with his brother in Kenya, which unfortunately didn't last) is an African American, now living in Texas. The biggest complaint he and his family have about this country...is simply that there are so many people falsely calling themselves African Americans. Black American, white American, if you're born in America no other nation should be placed in front. If a black American is to be called African American, then it would make the most sense for me to be called by where my ancestors are from as well. Guess that makes me a German English Irish Scottish Japanese Welsh African American. All the same, I'll stick to calling myself a first generation American who happens to be white (mostly white at least).
It does not matter to me what you choose to call yourself. It is your choice. So why should it matter to you what I call myself? Who defines that? I can call myself African-American and sometimes if I don't feel like typing it out I call myself black even though I prefer not to use that classification. So what? I don't get it? That does not make me less patriotic than you.
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